2051 Muirwood Quotes & Sayings

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity. — John Lone

Until I moved to Stockhold I had felt there was a continuity to my life, as if it stretched unbroken from childhood up to the present, held together by new connections, in a complex and ingenious pattern in which every phenomenon I saw was capable of evoking a memory which unleashed small landslides of feeling in me, some with a known source, others without. The people I encountered came from towns I had been to, they knew other people I had met, it was a network, and it was a tight mesh. But when I moved to Stockholm this flaring up of memories became rarer and rarer, and one day it ceased altogether. That is, I could still remember; what happened was that the memories no longer stirred anything in me. No longing, no wish to return, nothing. Just the memory, and a barely perceptible hint of an aversion to anything that was connected with it. — Karl Ove Knausgard

If there's one phrase you will hear over and over from me, it's this: A strong butt is key to a happy running life. — Jordan Metzl

He who would be everything cannot be anything.) — Irvin D. Yalom

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding. — Sophocles

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. — Elizabeth Taylor

September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She'd only just gotten it, and she'd promised to take copious notes for Belinda Cabbage, which probably did not mean handing it over to the first person who asked and taking notes on what she got for it. But more than that, she wanted it with her. It had chosen her. She felt safer with it, even though she knew it was probably quite dangerous.
"No," she said finally. "I can't. What if I need it?"
"Good girl," said the Minotaur. "A warrior never gives up her weapon. — Catherynne M Valente

A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day. — Liane Moriarty

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all. — Gore Vidal

You say 'believe in your dreams', I say that I believe in YOU. — Jared Leto